Their story
Wren began uploading phone-recorded songs from her kitchen table in Bristol in 2016, singing quietly so as not to wake her flatmates. Her self-released first record, 'Tin Kettle Hours' (2017), spread by word of mouth, and she followed it with 'Windowsill Weather' (2019), 'Small Hours, Slow Light' (2021) and 'Houseplants for Company' (2024), each a little more layered but never louder. She still records at the same table, and is now one of the station's most requested voices for quiet evenings.
Influences: Late-night kitchen radio, English pastoral folk, the hush of home-recorded cassette demos, diaristic poetry
Latest from Wren Hallett
- The heating came on this week and the radiator under the kitchen window has started its ticking again. I think it's a very good percussionist. I've started a new little record at the table called "Radiator Hymns": five songs for the first cold weeks, soft and close, with a kettle somewhere in the background. Thank you for playing the older ones so kindly this week. Keep your socks warm.